What about The Jam? ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 7:33 AM Subject: Re: 80s indie - new thread! > Here are some for your consideration: > > Dream Syndicate- s/t ep on Down There/Days of Wine and Roses / Medicine > Show > Go Betweens-Springhill Fair/Liberty Belle/Tallulah > Bangles-All Over the Place AND S/T ep on Faulty Products > Zeitgeist/Reivers-Translate Slowly/Saturday/End of the Day > Plimsouls-Everywhere at Once > Aztec Camera-high land Hard Rain/Knife > Rain Parade -Emergency Third Rail Power Trip/Explosions in the Glass > Palace/Crashing Dream > My Bloody Valentine-Isn't Anything > XTC-Skylarking > Dukes of Stratosphear-Chips From the Chocolate Fireball > the Jazz Butcher-A Scandal in Bohemia /Distressed Gentlefolk > Tommy keene-Songs From the Film/Based on Happy Times > dBs-Stands for Decibels/Like This/Repercussion > the Colourfield-Virgins and Philistines > Felt-Ignite the Seven Cannons / Strange Idols... > Long Ryders-Native Sons > Green on Red s/t ep and Gravity Talks > Dentists-Some People Are on the Pitch... > Green- s/t,/ Whitesoul/Elaine McKenzie > Mighty Lemondrops-Happyhead/Out of Hand > Psychedelic Furs-s/t/Talk Talk Talk/Mirror Moves/Forever Now > Windbreakers-Run /Terminal > Grapes of Wrath-Treehouse/September Bowl of Greens/Now and Again > Let's Active-Cypress/Afoot/Big Plans for Everybody > Game Theory-Real Nighttime/Big Shot Chroncles/Lolita Nation/Two steps from > the Middle Ages > Church-Seance/Blurred Crusade/Heyday/Of Skins and Hearts/Remote > Luxury/Starfish > Chills-Kaleidoscope World/Brave Words > Clean-Compilation > Verlaines-Hallelujah All the Way Home/Bird Dog > lloyd Cole and the Commotions-Rattlesnakes/Easy Pieces > A Flock of Seagulls-s/t > Duran Duran-s/t /Rio > Men at Work-Cargo > Ultravox-Lament/Quartet > Talk Talk > Roxy music-Avalon > > > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "AssociationWorks" >> Not that this is a feeble attempt to stop the Paula Kelly thread but... >> I host a radio show called the "80's Underground"...and I'm toying >> with the idea of doing a 2-hour special on the *essential* indie >> rock albums of the 80s. I have my faves listed below, but I'd be >> curious to hear from other fans (or fanatics) of the genre. I need >> about 25-30 songs to fill the timeslot. >> >> What are the essential/influential, must-own indie/underground albums >> of the 1980's? >> >> (my picks): >> 1. THE SMITHS - The Queen Is Dead >> 2. REM - Murmur >> 3. THE CURE - Pornography >> 4. REPLACEMENTS - Tim >> 5. THE PIXIES - Doolittle >> 6. HUSKER DU - Flip Your Wig >> 7. KILLING JOKE - s/t >> 8. JESUS & MARY CHAIN - PsychoCandy >> 9. NEW ORDER - Power Corruption & Lies >> 10. STONE ROSES - s/t >> 11. SONIC YOUTH - Daydream Nation >> 12. MINUTMEN - Double Nickels On Th Dime >> 13. X - Under The Big Black Sun >> 14. JANE'S ADDICTION - Nothing's Shocking >> 15. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Coean Rain >> 16. CHAMELEONS UK - Strange Times >> 17. GARY NUMAN - I, Assasin >> 18. BILLY BRAGG - Talking With The Taxman About Poetry >> 19. THE FALL - This Nation's Saving Grace >> 20. SPLIT ENZ - Time & Tide >> >> What am I mising here? Hit me! >> >> Jeff > > >